I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
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Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
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The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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Ever since I was little, I've been in love with animals. I've experienced their unconditional love, I've seen the difference they make… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
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I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“What really got to me was not the fact that animal cruelty could predict violent behavior—it's that up until I read about… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cruelty that everyone is aware of and yet puts their blinders up on. I think it's meaningful for… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if… — David S. Ware Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
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Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
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